An article on B1 Friday should have quoted DNR official Julie Ekman as saying, “Imagine a sprinkling ban that lasts for years.” She also commented about city ordinances that contemplate mere “brief dry spells,” not “long-term bans, year after year.”
A column on OW3 Nov. 4 should have noted that the leopard frog was twice proposed as the state amphibian, but the measures did not pass.
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